<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Apr 30, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ipshita Majhi <<a href="mailto:ipmajhi@alaska.edu">ipmajhi@alaska.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I feel my x-11 plots have white background instead of black that is why the axis doesn't show up. How to resolve this issue.<br><br>Thank You<br>Ipshita<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Ipshita,</div><div><br></div><div>By default, NCL plots have a white background and a black foreground, and all lines, axis backgrounds, contour lines, text, markers, etc, are black by default, unless you specfically set a resource like “tmBorderLineColor” to white.</div><div><br></div><div>So, you have two possible solutions: don’t use white as a color for these type of plot elements, or, if you really want a black background and a white background, then you can change this when you call gsn_open_wks:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Courier"> type = “x11"</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Courier"> type@wkBackgroundColor = "black"</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Courier"> type@wkForegroundColor = "white"</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Courier"> wks = gsn_open_wks(type,”example”)</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">—Mary</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco;"><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
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